Speaker: Igor Klebanov (Princeton University)
Title:
AdS/CFT and Beyond
Abstract:
D-branes and their gravitational properties are used to motivate the AdS/CFT
correspondence which relates string theory in Anti-de Sitter space to a certain
supersymmetric gauge theory. New tests of the correspondence, based on
dimensions of high-spin operators, are reviewed. We also discuss applications
of the correspondence to thermal gauge theory which involve black holes. Finally,
we outline extensions of the gauge/string duality to gauge theories that exhibit
color confinement.